How Does Sound TASTE? (You're Not Gonna Believe This)
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2024
- A trait that intertwines the senses, experiencing the world in a different way. In this 'Adventures in Sounds' mini-doc, Alice Allen delves into the fascinating world of Synaethsesia (or Synthesthesia as it's spelt in the USA). We hear from musician Seonaid Aitken, who sees colours simultaneously as she hears sounds, matches musical notes to specific colours, she explains the inspiring ways Synaesthesia has fueled her creative processes. Alice also speaks with UK Synaesthesia Association president James Wannerton, who has a rare and form of Synaesthesia. Sounds for James are unified with tastes, such as tasting certain flavours for every stop name of the London Underground. He gives us an insight into the misconception of synesthesia and shares what it's like living with this extraordinary trait.
Music by Alice Allen and Seonaid Aitken
The Crow Hill Company: linktr.ee/thecrowhillcompany
Seonaid Aitken:
WEBSITE: seonaidaitken.com/
INSTAGRAM: / seonaid_music
FACEBOOK: / seonaidaitkenmusic
James Wannerton:
UK Synaethesia Association: uksynaesthesia.com
Credited Footage:
Camera Obscura
Chasing Sakura / Mini-documentary
James Wannerton/ Taste Synaestheisa / RUclips Doc 
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My daughter, a linguist, can see and taste words and sounds. And she remembers everything.
There may be more variance in how performers interpret dots on a piece of paper than is understood , the end result of everyone playing the same note being of paramount importance . Alice, you have a talent for this, keep producing.
Great video. I first heard about Synaesthesia from a 2004 documentary called 'Derek Tastes of Earwax' which features James. Great to see him leading the way with further reserch.
There is a seminar reserved for synaesthetic composition students at my local university.
Being someone with Aphantasia and audio-aphantasia I experience some things in the opposite direction. I see no images, have no visual memory nor hear music when not being played, nor do I have any voices in my head. However I feel music very strongly and as a composer-producer I don't feel at all that this is a disability. I draw, paint and make music and write stories. Words and music are very important in my life. So there were many parts of this video that resonated with me. Thank you for such a non-judgmental, curiosity driven set of interviews. I have friends with Synaesthsesia, and often trade descriptions of our different experiences to music. I love the underground map - visiting London is going to be a totally different experience from now on. I want to find and visit Spangles.
it's interesting how many people with clear personality disorders also claim to have Synaesthesia... this was a great watch, top video
I have often wondered about this. Fantastic to see this. And get an insight on the subject. Thank you. What a wonderful gift when harnessed and worked with.
I loved James' tube map! Travelling from "Pea & Ham Soup" to "Jam Roly Poly" ...... :) A really interesting subject. I don't have this gift but I do relate types of sounds to materials like wood, glass, metals, gases, etc...
I know, right? Much more fun!
Fascinating.
Unlike Seonaid, when I try and play the violin I just see red :D
I've endlessly been interested in people with this condition, to compare the different tastes/colours/shapes they assign to things.
Great to see videos on topics like this, would be great to have more!
In fact, I'm pretty sure that every station of the LU has its own unique flavor 🙂
Absolutey great topic. Thank you presenting it 🌻
Music is mathematical, we think in math, we feel in math. The most true statement I’ve found is to say that EVERYTHING is music. We just don’t understand it as music. There’s rhythmic patterns, octaves, scales etc. The reason a drummer can drop his drum stick on a drum and it voice back at exactly the right musical timing.
Brilliant and fascinating! Keep up the good work. 🤗
My first experience of this was back in the 60s at school. When at the music lesson the teacher played the Planets Suite by Holst. Every piece became a colour and texture. And after a Lifetime of writing and playing music. They all invoke colours for me. I even set out with a colour first to describe an aural tone.
Like quite a lot of composers, I'm autistic but I'd always put the colour and taste connection down to autism alone. How wrong was I. Age 51 and still in my infancy at learning. Interestingly, If I'm feeling happy, I write bleak music which to me 'looks' like vibrant flowers colours. Brilliant film, thank you. Going to deep dive into research on this
Amazing, thank you!
Check out the research that Vilayanur Ramachandran [MBBS, FRCP (London), PhD, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego] has been doing on synesthesia. eg. "Survival of the synesthesia gene: why do people hear colors and taste words? "
If the notes have colors, what happens with a chord? Does it work logically, like the colors combine like mixing paint? Or does each chord have an arbitrary color, or do they experience each color simultaneously?
There are two types, one is sensing the color, the other is actually seeing the color. And yes, they are each seen simultaneously. So a chord does actually produce multiple colors, and don't mix. Each color is not mixed. Though it may be different for others. I'm saying this based on Mary Bichner's experience.
Does the hue or saturation of the colour depend on what type of 'E' she is playing? Does an A440 look the same as an 'A' two octaves up?
The frequency makes the color. It depends on the person and their specific neurology. My old friend _Mary Bichner_, who has it, says that A is always the same colors regardless of octave. BUT.... the octave determines the brightness of the color. So low octaves are very dark. high octaves are very bright. Some "feel" the color, others actually see the color. Mary does see the color and it makes watching movies very difficult due to the sound tracks/music.
Mary has had difficulty with B and G as they are the same color for her. She has perfect pitch.
My questions exactly. And what about sharps and flats? Notes made my other instruments? If the trait is triggered by frequencies, every sound in nature is made up of frequencies. Many questions.
@@BrendanSpengler I had these questions too!
Very cool video. Minor typo. It’s “Sienna” brown, not sierra
I had music notes come out of the Beatles Revolver album whilst it was spinning, other than this, and it doesn't happen all the time (great when it does), is playing keyboard and going into an almost meditative, singular state.
Not sure but I can tell you what colour each note is
All sounds have shapes for me. Certain music can trigger colours.
That is a form of synesthesia, 100%. The research on synesthesia by Vilayanur Ramachandran is stunning!
Really interesting. Looking forward to Thursday!
I have synaesthesia, feel free if you would like to have a chat about it
I used to wish we had smellivision and tastevision... but not on RUclips or titkok... yikes! We'd cut off our noses. Wait... could that be why the grey aliens don't have noses? Or is it because noses are hard to sketch, but either way, it's probably good that we never developed smellivision.
I knew a guy at Oberlin who would see shapes and colors together in relation to music - like bright yellow triangles or violet stars, and so on. It seemed to be timbre and dynamics and harmonic relationships and melodic trajectories, whatever you want to call that aspect of the music (its "vibe"?🤣 IDK) that informed which shapes and colors would appear. At least, that's what seemed to make sense to me, at the time, from how he described it. But it could have been the absolute pitches, I guess, and I misinterpreted the situation. He called it synesthesia, and I'd heard that term before... so, that was a pretty normal and established phenomenon, under that label, at least for a while before that point.
I think you can match your music's color, or try to add to or change the meaning via color, or even subvert it. I think most people who don't have some form of synesthesia still have musical color associations thanks to Hollywood tropes, and even musical genre tropes, such as associating synthwave colors with analog polysynth chords. If synesthesia is some sort of spectrum, then in order to identify it, you'd have to be able to tease apart the mild cases from those culturally induced associations. Or maybe it IS some combination of an active imagination with learned associations, and some other factors, that come together for that sort of perception to emerge? Have fun with it!
Wait, if they can see sound in colors, do they hear the music while at an art gallery?
Some people do. She called that "bidirectional", but said she was unidirectional. I never met anyone who had a 1 to 1 relationship... like, if you categorized every color and morphology association someome has with intervals or timbres, for example (or absolute pitch, apparently)... and then used that data to reverse engineer a song from a painting, using color and shape... it would sound avant-garde at best.
We may be interested in synesthete Mary Bichner [and her website].
Hallucinogenics also bring forth the phenomenon of synesthesia. I remember one friend telling me about a band that he played in years ago. The bass player, who was tripping on acid, suddenly yelled across the stage to him, "I CAN SEE THE NOTES! I CAN SEE THE NOTES!" Such a phenomenon is very real and can be experienced without chemical aids by many individuals. Great video, Christian! Cheers!
BTW, whenever I experience this phenomenon, I just want a Dmaj7add9 to 'taste like a cheeseburger'!! :-)
No, it’s absolutely not a disorder, it is related to in ANTHROPOSOPHY as music of the higher spheres…… spiritual!
Vilayanur Ramachandran has studied synesthesia for decades. lots of very interesting research. "Not a disorder."
Rudolph Steiner 👍